Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 126744

Electoral Register: Commonwealth

Tabled: 13 April 2026
Answered: 22 April 2026

Question

David Simmonds

ConservativeRuislip, Northwood and Pinner

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of Commonwealth citizens resident in the United Kingdom with an immigration status allowing them to be a qualifying Commonweal

Answer

Samantha Dixon
There are no official statistics on the number of qualifying Commonwealth citizens living in the UK who are eligible to register to vote, either in England or across the United Kingdom. The Office for National Statistics publishes population estimates by ...

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